Import Users and Groups into CAWA DE Server

Products

• DSERIES- SERVER
• CA Workload Automation DE - Scheduler (dSeries)
• CA Workload Automation DE

Issue/Introduction

There is no a command in Imexutil utility to import User and Group artifacts into CAWA DE Server. How to import these artifacts?

 

Environment

ESP dSeries Workload Automation DE

Cause

Users and Groups importing is disabled to avoid security inconsistency. However, these artifacts can be loaded into DE Server if necessary.

Resolution

1. On source DE Server, export the Users and Groups to output directory/folders.

2.  On target DE Server:

• Backup the following directory:
  (r11.3 or higher) server_install_dir/conf/DBInit
  (r11.1) server_install_dir/Resource/DBInit
• Remove all folders in the 'DBInit' except the 'Config'.
• Create two new folders: 'User' and 'Group'.
• Put exported user and group files into the new folders User and Group respectively.
• Ensure you rename all of the exported files with the .xml extension.

• To ensure that the 'DBInit' folder is read by DE server during the startup, create an empty file and name it 'populate' - place this file in the 'DBInit' folder.

3. Restart target DE Server

• Restart DE Server and check the tracelog file to ensure that the log recorded the "populate" messages.
• Log on and check the Admin/Security perspective - the users and the groups should be shown.

Note that if a user is linked to a group, both user and group need to be imported.

Additional Information

Import Users and Groups from a ESP dSeries Workload Automation Server